Recently Ilya Levitas celebrated his 70th anniversary, so the Jewish Council of Ukraine issued a booklet as an anniversary present. The booklet comprises the JCU President's detailed autobiography, people's opinions of him, congratulations on the 70th birthday.

The presentation of the third volume of "The Remembrance Book of Dnepropetrovsk Warriors-Jews" was held in Dnepropetrovsk. The edition lists the names of about 10 thousands warriors-Jews who were killed in the struggle with Fascism.

At the end of 2001 Poltava marked 80 years since Vladimir Korolenko's death. His contemporaries called him the Great Righteous Man, "the society's consciousness". The writer-publicist takes a special place in the hearts of the Jews.